Saturday, February 27, 2010

This was an Installation I made for a show at the Nierman Museum/Johnson county community college in Kansas City 2005. The Signs are songs evocative of a lover I had had and the logs have records inside. I was imagining what music had formed the part of me that was attractive to that specific lover. The wall painting was floating graffitti of song titles that referenced unattainable perfection..

Monday, February 22, 2010

I've been working on some drawings for Scott Hug's K-48 magazine, the them is magic and I keep thinking of the Ladytron song "light and Magic" so that's pretty much all I've been listening to in the studio for the past week or so.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Sunday, February 14, 2010

I just ran across these snapshots of me in my studio at Cite des Arts in Paris from the winter of 2006. It was a gift that just dropped into my lap out of the blue. I'm going to try and get back there again soon.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

These Watercolor & Gouache pieces I did in 2003 and they were shown the following spring at MoMA/PS1 in a show called 'The Curious Crystals....." It was curated by Steve LaFreniere and Bob Nickas. I was thinking of the way music just takes up so much space, it's huge.

When I first came to NYC in the 1980's so many of the subway trains were covered in these massive graffiti pieces and it was so exciting when they would pull into the station, you never knew what you were gonna see and even though so many of these pieces were giant, they were painted with these dramatic 3d effects to make them look even more massive, bigger than big. Combined with the noise that these trains would make pulling in, this was some pretty powerful art.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

I denied myself the pleasure of listening to disco when I was younger. For starters, I was known in Minneapolos as the guy with one of the best punk rock record collections so therefore i got a job DJing at the local punk club and I wouldnt have been caught dead admitting to a liking of disco. I was straight, disco was for gay people, 'nuff said..if i could have just trusted my taste and not been afraid of what people thought of me by liking disco and admitted to myself who I was, I could have had a lot more fun. These branches are a way to reclaim some of the beauty I denied myself...

About Me

Erik Hanson has been making artwork referencing ethereal experiences for over 20 years and has had 7 solo shows in New York and group shows in various venues throughout the world including The museum Boymans van Boyningen in Rotterdam, Center Cultural Rojas in Buenos Aires and MoMA/PS1 in new york city. His most meaningful job before that was as a DJ in Minneapolis' punk club "The Longhorn" from 1978 to 1981 where at one point he owned all of the punk rock records in existence, world wide.